Walker, Alice
▪ American writer
in full Alice Malsenior Walker
born Feb. 9, 1944, Eatonton, Ga., U.S.
American writer whose novels, short stories, and poems are noted for their ...

Walker, Alice (Malsenior)
born Feb. 9, 1944, Eatonton, Ga., U.S.
U.S. writer.
After attending Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College, Walker moved to Mississippi and became involved with the civil ...

Wall Street
1. a street in New York City, in S Manhattan: the major financial center of the U.S.
2. the money market or the financiers of the U.S.
[1820-30, Amer. for def. 2]
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Wall Street Journal
the leading financial newspaper in the US. It was first published in 1889 by Charles H Dow and Edward D Jones and is still owned by Dow Jones & Company, which also publishes the ...

Wall Street Journal, The
U.S. daily national newspaper, the most influential American business-oriented paper and one of the most respected dailies in the world.
Founded in 1889 by Charles H. Dow, ...

Wallace's line
Zoogeog.
an imaginary line that separates the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions and passes between Bali and Lombok, west of Celebes, and east of the ...

Wallace, (Richard Horatio) Edgar
born April 1, 1875, Greenwich, London, Eng.
died Feb. 10, 1932, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.
British novelist, playwright, and journalist.
He held odd jobs, served in the army, and ...

Wallace, Alfred Russel
born Jan. 8, 1823, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
died Nov. 7, 1913, Broadstone, Dorset, Eng.
British naturalist.
Though trained as a surveyor and architect, he became interested in ...

Wallace, William, Sir
born 1279, probably near Paisley, Renfrew, Scot.
died Aug. 23, 1305, London, Eng.
Scottish national hero.
Son of a small landowner, he began his attacks on English settlements ...

Wallace,Alfred Russel
Wal·lace (wŏlʹĭs), Alfred Russel. 1823-1913.
British naturalist who developed a concept of evolution that paralleled the work of Charles Darwin. His works include The ...

Wallack, Henry John
▪ American actor
born 1790, London, Eng.
died Aug. 30, 1870, New York, N.Y., U.S.
leading British-American actor and theatrical manager.
Born into a ...

Wallack, James William
born Aug. 24, 1795, London, Eng.
died Dec. 25, 1864, New York, N.Y., U.S.
British-U.S. actor-manager.
Born into a London stage family, he acted in Shakespearean roles from age ...

Wallack, James William, II
▪ American actor
born Feb. 24, 1818, London, Eng.
died May 24, 1873, Aiken, S.C., U.S.
outstanding British-American actor of tragedy and melodrama, best known for ...

Wallack, Lester
▪ American actor
original name John Johnstone Wallack
born Jan. 1, 1820, New York, N.Y., U.S.
died Sept. 6, 1888, Stamford, Conn.
actor, playwright, and ...

wallah
/wah"lah, -leuh/, n. Anglo-Indian.
a person in charge of, employed at, or concerned with a particular thing (used in combination): a book wallah; a ticket wallah.
[1770-80; < ...

wallaroo
/wol'euh rooh"/, n., pl. wallaroos, (esp. collectively) wallaroo.
any of several large kangaroos of the genus Macropus (Osphranter), of the grassy plains of Australia, esp. M. ...

Wallas, Graham
▪ British political scientist
born May 31, 1858, Sunderland, Eng.
died Aug. 10, 1932, London
British educator, public official, and political scientist known for ...

Wallis and Futuna
Wallis and Futuna [wô′lis]
French overseas territory in the South Pacific, northeast of the Fiji Islands: it consists of two groups of islands (Wallis Islands and Futuna ...

Wallis and Futuna Islands
Island group, South Pacific Ocean.
It is a self-governing overseas territory (pop., 2000 est.: 15,283) of France; it includes Wallis Island (also known as Uvea), the Futuna ...

Wallis Islands
Island group (pop., 1996: 9,528), forming the northeastern part of the French overseas territory of Wallis and Futuna, South Pacific Ocean.
It comprises the main island of Uvea ...

Wall’s
a British company known for making ice cream. It is owned by Unilever.
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Walmart{™}
a US company which opened its first store in 1962 and is now said to be the biggest retailer (= a business that sells goods to the public) in the world. It has thousands of ...

walnut
/wawl"nut', -neuht/, n.
1. the edible nut of trees of the genus Juglans, of the North Temperate Zone. Cf. walnut family.
2. the tree itself.
3. the wood of such a tree.
4. ...

Walnut Canyon National Monument
National monument, north-central Arizona, U.S. Established in 1915 and covering an area of 3 sq mi (8 sq km), it preserves more than 300 pre-Columbian dwellings built by the ...

Walnut Creek
a town in W California. 53,643.
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▪ California, United States
city, Contra Costa county, northwestern California, U.S. It lies in the San Ramon Valley, east ...

walnut family
the plant family Juglandaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having alternate, pinnately compound leaves, male flowers in tassellike catkins and female flowers in clusters, ...

walnut husk fly
any of several fruit flies, as Rhagoletis completa, the larvae of which feed on and discolor walnut husks.
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WalnutCreek
Wal·nut Creek (wôlʹnŭt', -nət)
A city of western California northeast of Oakland. It is an industrial center. Population: 60,569.
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Walpi
▪ Indian pueblo, Arizona, United States
pueblo (pueblo architecture) (village), Navajo county, northeastern Arizona, U.S., on the edge of a high mesa in the Hopi ...

Walpole Island
▪ island, New Caledonia
small, uninhabited coralline limestone island in the French overseas country of New Caledonia, southwestern Pacific Ocean, at the ...

Walpole, Horace, 4th earl of Orford
orig. Horatio Walpole
born Sept. 24, 1717, London, Eng.
died March 2, 1797, London
English writer, connoisseur, and collector.
The son of prime minister Robert Walpole, he had ...

Walpole, Robert, 1st earl of Orford
born Aug. 26, 1676, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Eng.
died March 18, 1745, London
English statesman generally regarded as the first British prime minister.
Elected to the House of ...

Walpole, Sir Hugh
▪ British writer
born March 13, 1884, Auckland, N.Z.
died June 1, 1941, near Keswick, Cumberland, Eng.
British novelist, critic, and dramatist, a natural ...